On Tuesday 07 November 2006 19:57, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 22:05 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > This old one is a Philips, identified as a 740. lsmod confirms that > > pwc is loaded. I can't use it like this, so I'll have to see what I > > can do about getting another. I had wanted to avoid usb 1.1 webcams, > > thinking that a usb2 one would be better, but I can't find any > > compatibility reports for any of the ones I've found. > > Anne, which driver are you using? The Philips uses pwc. It gets a picture, but not a usable one. > Mine worked like a bloomin' charm > until yum upgraded the kernel and things went wonky. Now I'm finding a > problem with my glibc install that has me baffled. Might be why I can't > roll that module. > > But, I used gspca from: > > http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html > > Worked right the first time. You might want to try that one. It claims > to be the Swedish Survival Knife of webcam modules. All my camera > applications recognized and acknowledged the module it built. My webcam > was claimed to be not supported at all, and this enabled it. Ric > Maybe my brain has given up under the strain. [anne@david gspcav1-20060925]$ make make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/anne/Downloads/gspcav1-20060925 CC=cc modules make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: *** [default] Error 2 I wondered if it was a permissions problem on /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build, but it isn't as simple as that, apparently. ls -al /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Nov 1 12:15 /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build -> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586 This shows the link flashing red, which I presume spells trouble. The only guess left to me is that I'm missing kernel headers, or some such. What would the package be called? Anne
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